Re: Installing nvidia, fglrx drivers may produce an unusable desktop

There seems to be an issue on fresh & maybe upgrade installs when installing any of the nvidia-* drivers.(& probably also fglrx is the same
linux-headers-generic (linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic) is not default installed & will not be installed when installing the nvidia-* package
(I believe the dep is improperly satisfied by linux-headers which is default installed

This will cause the kernel module not to be built & when rebooting users will not get a fully working Desktop.

So before installing any of the nvidia drivers or fglrx best to -

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Edit:
It's been decided not to adjust the nvidia-* or fglrx packages so people need to do as above or maybe complain on this bug

Re: Installing nvidia drivers may produce an unusable desktop

Originally Posted by mc4man

There seems to be an issue on fresh installs when installing any of the nvidia-* drivers.
linux-headers-generic (linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic) is not default installed & will not be installed when installing the nvidia-* package
(I believe the dep is improperly satisfied by linux-headers which is default installed

This will cause the kernel module not to be built & when rebooting users will not get a fully working Desktop.

Re: Quantal (12.10) Know bugs and work arounds

Hi!, all

RE: Additional Drivers not available in 12.10 install.

When I finally, managed to get 12.10 to install [ after trashing an external HDD with 300Gig of data - separate story!] the default driver for my nvidia GT520 would not support Unity 3D -"not software rendered"; although it ran perfectly well in 12.04.

Though the Greeter login screen did not have an option to run anything else until I installed 'gnome-session-fallback'.

I then found that 'Additional Drivers" is not included in the 12.10 release. Entering that in the 'Dash' search opened a specific version of the Software Center, and ten minutes later it was installed, but not to be found anywhere: not in 'Dash', not in 'System Settings', not in 'Synaptic' [ after installing that too ] and not in a terminal [ 'jockey' would not run saying 'jockey-common' was needed ].

Eventually, I installed the 'nvidia-current-updates' 304.51 with 'Synaptic Package Manager' and removed and reinstalled 'Additional Drivers". I noticed that the 'info' stated "This includes the KDE interface".

So I tried:

Code:

gksudo jockey-kde

and "Hey Presto" it worked and 'Additional Drivers" ran, telling me that 'nvidia-current-updates' was installed but not running [ which in fact it was, so that bug is still there!"].

BTW: Contrary to recent Posts here I did not have to install the Linux headers or build essential , i n order to install the nvidia driver.

Chao!, bogan.

"Better Solutions may bring Worsened Problems": After Lao Tse, b. circa 405BC. a contemporary of Confucius, who died circa 600BC.
They did things differently in those days, apparently!!

Re: Quantal (12.10) Know bugs and work arounds

Hi!, pompel9,

Thanks for that info, though the output of Additional Drivers started from Software Sources is different to that when run with 'jockey-kde' from a terminal, the later is in the previous format [ as in 12.04 ] and the former is [slightly] more informative in its listing, including the Nouveau driver, and showing the video card version.

However, unlike the former version it, does not show which driver is installed or in use, merely stating: " One proprietary driver is in use", regardless of which is highlighted.

Chao!, bogan.

"Better Solutions may bring Worsened Problems": After Lao Tse, b. circa 405BC. a contemporary of Confucius, who died circa 600BC.
They did things differently in those days, apparently!!